Download - Connexion Client Version 1.30
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Connexion Client Version 1.30
Implementation, May 9, 2005.
Training, April 26, 2005
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Context for Changes
Changes made to make Connexion searching similar to FirstSearch searching.
True Boolean keyword searching is available, including multiple terms with a single index label.
Great specificity in phrase and keyword searching is possible.
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More Context
Changes in phrase and keyword searching will require attention to master predictable results.
Technical Bulletin #251 is most informative.
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Three types of Searches
Command Line Searches – Entered in the box at the top of the screen
Guided Searches – Entered in Keyword / Numeric Search boxes
Browse query (index scan) Searches – Entered into Browse WorldCat Search Screen (separate screen)
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Command Line Searches
DerivedNumericKeyword / PhraseBrowse Query (index scan)
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What’s different?
“Find” is now implicit Index labels changes – but labels are
optional if first search element in command line box.
Phrase searching has been expanded.New boolean operators – wildcards,
truncation & plurals Use quotation marks around multiple words
to search them as a phrase.
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Derived Searches
Still structured the sameTitle 3,2,2,1Name / Title 4,4Name 4,3,1Corporate name =4,3,1
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Index Label Changes
In the command line always use the index labels [e.g., ti] EXCEPT for ISBN number and when doing a derived search.
For numeric searches the index labels and all letters are required for the search.
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Sample Numeric Searches
ISBN Search: 0824771427bn:0824771427
ISSN Search: in:0098-3527OCLC # no:10752059
#10752059*10752059
LCCN phrase ln=74-5491 Publisher number: mn:K 4401
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Phrase Searching Expansion
Many index labels have been changedMany new indexes have been addedScan command still browses WorldCat
indexes:sca ti:
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Punctuation after the index label is now obligatory and meaningful
Keyword Searchxx: Single word in any location in a fieldPhrase Searchxx= Multiple words in a specific order in
a single subfieldWhole Phrase Searchxxw=Multiple words in a specific order in a
single field
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Example Title Search Options
Keyword Search ti:
Phrase Search ti=
Whole Phrase Search tiw=
Keyword Browse Query scan ti:
Phrase Browse Query scan ti=
While Phrase Browse Query scan tiw=
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Example Searches
Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom, Second Edition with New Preface, edited by Louis Filler, University Press of America, 1982
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Academic Libraries by the Year 2000, essays honoring Jerrold Orne, Edited by Herbert Poole, R.R. Bowker Company, New York & London 1977
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Now for something completely different
What is it doing?Do a derived title search (3,2,2,1) for The
Nation’s flu shot shortage – you get 4 results
Now go to that blank command box and simply type: nations flu shot shortage or
Type nations shot flu shortageI THINK it is assuming “find” – and
performing a keyword search.
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Boolean Operators
And used between terms, both words must be in the record.nepal india [AND is assumed]
Or used between terms, contain either one or both words in the same recordnepal OR india
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More Boolean Operators
With
“w” between two terms, record must contain both in the order typed
“w#” between two terms found in the order typed with no more than 1-25 spaces between the wordsaluminum w wiring
aluminum w2 wiring
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More Boolean Operators
Near
“n” between 2 terms in any order
“n#” no more than 1-25 spaces between the wordsoverview n 1998
chicken n3 egg(civil OR war) OR (stone NOT river)
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Wildcards, truncation and plurals
# - Unknown single characterwom#n retrieves women and woman
? – Unknown number of additional characterscol?r retrieves color and colour
* - Truncation – find variant endingslibrar* retrieves libraries, librarian, etc.
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Qualifiers
In the command line qualifiers are the same for keyword searches as they are for the derived searches, but the index terms must be used for keyword searches.mt: Material typeyr: Year or yearsmf: Microformdl: Cataloging sourcedt: internet/not internetla: Language
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Guided Searches
Keyword SearchesNumeric Searches
Searches performed in the Keyword/Numeric Search box
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What’s different
The dialogue box has been changed considerably.
There are only three lines, but multiple words can be used in each line.
Choose the indexes to be searched, in that box type all the terms to be searched for that index.
In the index boxes at the right are a list of ten commonly used indexes.
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Browse Query Screen
Use instead of Command Line Search box
Basically functions like a guided browse search
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Change to Brief list Display
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Change to Truncated Display
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Resources
Connexion Central on the Intranet:https://intra.lms.kent.edu/collmgmt/documentation/cataloging/ConnexionCentral.htm
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OCLC Connexion Client Tutorial
Searching WorldCat:http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/tutorials/connexion/client/clsearch.html